The Danish Health Care Quality Programme
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The Danish Health Care Quality Programme (DDKM) is a method to generate persistent quality development across the entire health care sector in Denmark. It provides standards for good quality and methods to monitor this quality. The standards are developed in a cooperation between the Danish Institute for Quality and Accreditation in Health Care (IKAS), established in 2005, and representatives of professions from various sectors involved in health care. The objectives of the Danish Health Care Quality Programme are (www.ikas.dk):
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